7-29-2024
H: 69ºF L: 57ºF
KM Resorts Travel Inn RV Resort, Elma, Washington
It’s another travel day! We are going further south. Before we hit the road, we took a ride down to the bay on the free loaner bikes provided by Cove RV Park. What a nice touch!
7-30-2024
H: 68ºF L: 59ºF
KM Resorts Travel Inn RV Resort, Elma, Washington
It has been two weeks since we did laundry so we stayed home and caught up on laundry.
We also found a great way to encourage people to choose not to be our neighbors (we like people but we like a little space too). We saw a Class A RV pull up and stop like it was going to back into the site next to us. Daniel let the boys out to go potty (deterrent #1 – pit bulls) and saw Peter urinate on his dog bed so he yelled at the bed (trust me, it works and deterrent #2 – crazy people). That Class A drove away and found another site. Haha!
7-31-2024
H: 77°F L: 59°F
KM Resorts Travel Inn RV Resort, Elma, Washington
We had another down day but did some organizing in the camper. Everything needs to have a place.
In the evening we drove around Elma, WA to explore. We found a business park in a partially completed nuclear power plant complex, Satsop Business Park. In the 1970s, the Washington Public Power Supply System set out to build 5 nuclear reactors in the state. The construction on the two nuclear power reactors in Elma, WA, units 3 and 5, was started in 1976 but stopped in 1982 when the whole project was over budget by $2.5 billion and the public voiced concerns regarding safety after the 1979 Three Mile Island incident. Unit 5 was about 15% complete and unit 3 was about 80% complete. A few short videos showing different areas not accessible by the public can be viewed here.
Now, one of the cooling towers is used by Northwest Laborers Training which provides free training for construction workers who build big buildings. There’s also a Christmas wreath business and a lab which does acoustic testing with two of the largest reverberation rooms in the world.
Stats
Expenses:
- Tow vehicle fuel: $0
- Campsite: $33.57
- Camping memberships: $11.19
- Food: $73.11
Miles driven: 147.4 (76 kWh)
Number of people asking about the Tesla pulling the camper: 3
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